Word: grade
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ever since the unusual stimulation provided by the World War, the deep-shaft, low grade copper mines of this country have found the going hard, with production costs close to market quotations for the red metal. Discouraged producers, especially in Michigan, are now turning to tariff legislation as the only visible means of running their properties at a profit. The movement has resulted in a bill introduced by Representative W. Frank James of Michigan, to place a tariff on imported copper of 6? a pound...
...cheap copper imported from South America from the domestic markets, would favor home production at high operating costs. Yet it would also hamper the prosperity of many U. S. companies, like Anaconda, which have provided themselves with cheap foreign sources of supply. On the other hand, certain high-grade U. S. copper mines, like Kennecott in Alaska, would make astonishing profits...
...mistake more frequently made is to suppose that a mediocre grade indicates mediocrity later. In examining the records of Seniors who did excellent work in special subjects I have been struck with the frequent cases of men who did only fairly well in the introductory course. That was especially the case where the training at school had not been good...
...Tests made with 124 elementary classes of second, fifth and seventh grades to compare small with large classes of pupils, showed that the large classes were practically as efficient as the small. The most benefit from small classes was derived in the lower grade -P. R. Stevenson, of Ohio State University...
...Teachers of equal training are equal experience should receive equal pay regardless of what grade in elementary or high schools they teach. -Jesse H. Mewlon, Supt. of Denver Schools...